Just when you think you've got the hang of it...

[Raven Morpheus]

Hey all

Ever have one of those days (or weeks in my case) where you think you've grasped whatever it is you've been grappling with for days, weeks, months, years, and then it all just falls to pieces?

Well that's how I'm feeling about IL2 at the moment.

I've just been playing through a handful of the campaigns I'm currently running, doing 1 mission of each at a time, and I've just done mission 4 of Facing the Wind, mission 4 of 4 days in June (Battle of Midway campaign), I'm on mission 3 (or 4) of Dust Devils (P38 North Africa campaign) having tried and failed it. I'm also doing a Wake Island DGEN campaign, I'll get to that in a minute...

My Facing the Wind mission saw me not doing too badly until it came to land, but I caught the wire and it bounced me onto the carrier deck and obviously the prop and undercarriage were totaled. My 4 days in June battle saw me and half a dozen other F4F's swamped by the Japanese air fleet (as per real life) and I ended up shooting a B5N until it was smoking with black smoke but I didn't get the kill (seemingly AI can fly planes that have no engine running!!!!), and I was forced down with aileron damage and barely managed to crash land, luckily I bailed on the ground just before the plane exploded!

The Dust Devils mission I'm stuck on was going fine right till the end, where upon getting back to the airfield I was notified there's "bandits at 9 o'clock" - I've just landed and so of course I have to take off again. Then my screen goes all black and I have to switch to F2 view but end up crashing into a mountain!!

Then there's the aforementioned Wake Island DGEN campaign I just started. 1st mission. 40 enemy fighters vs 2 F4F's! WTF!!!! Seriously?! Outnumbered 20-1 what are you supposed to do other than what I did which was get turned into Swiss cheese and forced into landing!?!

It's bad enough that I still can't nail landing 100% (I've spent the last couple of days in QMB doing some takeoff/landing practice in a F4U-1D and seemingly bouncing off carrier decks, bouncing off Midway's runway and crashing all the time, until tonight I finally managed to nail a landing on Midway), but all of the above has just ruined my enjoyment of IL2! It's just not fun when you spend your time either getting shot to pieces and/or crashing!!